Oriana Eliçabe (Buenos Aires, 1972)

A documentary photographer and cultural agitator. Co-founder of the Enmedio group, which has been working in combining art and social activism since 2007. She coordinates the TAF! Taller d´Acció Fotogràfica from there. This is a photography workshop applied to urban intervention which promotes a critical attitude toward the contemporary uses of photography and its relationship with social reality. She has formed part of several groups of art and activism, such as Las Agencias y Yomango, among others.

Her trajectory shines a light on the value of collaborative creation as a tool of social transformation. She works with a special interest in the established powers and the social changes caused by social organisation and resistance, her projects move between photography, artivism, video and creative communication.

She studied photography at the Photographic and Cinematographic Art School in Avellaneda. In 1992 she settled in Mexico, where she performed workshops with prominent photographers. Between 1995-1999 she lived in Chiapas documenting the Zapatista reality as a correspondent for the Agence France-Presse (AFP). She later moved to Barcelona, where she currently resides.

In 2000 she received the FotoPressʼ01 scholarship with the Madres lesbianas project. In 2003, she was awarded the Visual Arts Grant from the Catalan Government with the Espacio de Poder invisible / Espacios invisibles de Poder project. The National Council of Culture and Arts of Catalonia (CoNCA in its Catalan acronym) awarded her with the Visual Arts Grant with the project Familiarizarse. In 2015, the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) funded the project #efecteGEZI: el poder transformador de l'art.

She has exhibited both her individual and collective work both nationally and internationally in individual appearances as well as collectives with the following noteworthy events standing out: Palau Macaya; Barcelona, ​​2001, Berlinale, 2004; International Festival of Photojournalism, 2005; the SaNostra Foundation, Mallorca, 2006. Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, 2008; Standard/Deluxe Gallery, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008; Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico City, 2008. Arkitekturmuseet; Stockholm. 2009. Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico, 2009. In the V&A in London, 2014, as well as at the Portal de l’Àngel in Barcelona in 2015 and the Arnoldo Conti Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires, 2022.

Presentation updated in September 2022